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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

`Captivated by Admiration, Even Adoration'

“Those
students seem to me most admirable who are captivated by admiration, even
adoration—who know what it is to lack and long, quail and emulate—to feel the
exultation of being the lesser, bound by love to a greater, the pride of
recognizing superiority, the generosity of pure delight in it. You have to be
young; with maturity comes a more distant, more mordant view of even of the
finest of fellow humans. Yet, if moments of being simply overcome by some
magnificence or other have ceased altogether, you’re not so much old as
wizened.

“Our
students often know more than they know how to say. Life passes, and it’s the
other way around.”